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4 thoughts on “Polluting BP fat cat Hayward to get $18.5 million?”

I am not an expert on Russian environmental law, so I am not in a position to say whether what “seems” to you is actually so.

Of course, oil spills also occur by corporations other than BP, and in countries other than the USA. For instance, recently there was a bad oil spill in China. However, that spill, bad as it was, was less than 0,3% of the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Showing that there are theoretical standards, and there is practice.

If BP would have applied a safety device costing less than half a million $, mandatory in Braziil and Norway, though not in the USA, then that would have prevented the Gulf disaster.